Like the rest of the cast?
Well, true.
(OMG, Raven's normals are so bad)
But I meant specifically that Hawkgirl's normals are excellent at shutting Raven's down, more so than a lot of the cast. (Which is weird, because Hawkgirl's normals aren't considered amazing compared to the rest of the cast...)
Hawkgirl's d1 in particular is horrifically irritating. The range on that thing is absurd, and it's 6 frames fast, so there's fuck-all you can do to counter is directly. It leaves her at -1 on block, but because Raven doesn't have any normals that even
hit at that range, Hawkgirl
still has momentum on her side. Jumping at that range is idiotic - d2 will easily hit you. So the only option you have left is to backdash it, but because it recovers so quickly, all she has to do is move very slightly forwards and BAM! You're stuck in that situation again. Even worse, if she uses Mace Charge to come after you, and you block it, not only do you take a hefty amount of chip damage (>2%), it puts her in a great position for more d1 pressure. Lovely.
b2 is annoying too, because afterwards you literally have to guess whether the next option is going to be overhead or low - there's nothing else you can do if you block the first hit. If you guess wrong, you either take a chunk of damage, get caught in a bad reset position, or they get an opportunity to close space on you. If you guess right... you get bugger all. Then there's 32b1, which cuts through armour like a knife (ruining the one decent overhead option Raven has), and is 2 on block.
All I can say is thank fuck Hawkgirl is one of the worst characters at punishing a blocked Soul Crush. And that she doesn't have a decent projectile.
. As Zoidberg747 said, MU experience is a big one as she plays different to all of those characters (she has aspects of each). Other than that, the important things to learn are the ranged on her non-fullscreen special moves and knowing when to use them. Singularity (lift) and Soul Crush (3/4 screen grab) are the easiest, but the demon pillars will be more difficult. Pick the wrong range for a pillar and chances are you'll get fully punished for it.
